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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-07-01
The Upper Coos Railroad.

Hon. Frank Jones, Col. Chas. II.
Sinclair and George VanDyke, the
lumber king of New Hampshire,
have taken steps looking towards
the construction of a railroad TWEEN
ty one miles long extending from
North Stratford almost to the Can
ada line. These gentlemen were in
consultation early last week and
decided to go ahead OIL the condition
that the people along the route sub
scribed $4,000. They have signed
a $4,000 bond to that effect. or
course the residents in the section
of the proposed road are all aglow
with enthusiasm, and subscriptions
are pouring IN. Over $4,000 has al
ready been assured. There will be
no trouble about the $4,000 guar
anty. James Parsons headed the
list with $1,000 and half a dozen
men followed suit. The road will
be built, and that too. right away.
Mr.. Jones says that the construction
of the road will be Immediately en-,
tered upon. He has telegraphed fol
an engineer in Virginia, who is at
work on a road in that State in
which Mr.. Jones is interested. This
engineer will come here at once, and
500 men will be put at work, and
the road rushed ahead and compile
ted by early fall. The cost to con
struct and equip will be about
$40O,000. The road will be built
under the charter of the Upper Coos
road, the directors of which roaC
will cancel all stock subscription,
that have been made towards the
building of narrow guage road
and surrender their privileges t.
Messrs. Jones, Sinclair and Van
Dyke. The road will be standard
guage and be the property of tn,
three gentlemen named, it is said
although built in the interest of tn,
Boston d Maine. The Coos chart
er gives the right to build by IT,,
side of the Grand Trunk from
Groveton to North Stratford, i
deemed expedient. The town
through which the line will pas
after leaving North Stratford arr
Columbia, Bloomfield, VT, Cole
brook, Stewartstown, and Canaan
Vt. At Bloomfield the road vii
receive the immense business of tn,
Nulhegan Lumber Co. Ministe
Pope of the Dominion cabinet ha
telegraphed that the Megantic Cor
poration will build from Cookshir
in the town of Eaton to the Canad;
line to meet the Coos road, a dis
lance of about 20 miles, and tina
ground will be broken this season
The Megantic charter for this cx
tension carries with it cash sub
sidy of $4,000 and 1000 acres O
public land mile. Mr.. Jones i
very enthusiastic about the countr,
through which the road will run
He considers it one of the best sec
tions in New Hampshire for summe
tourists. Ex-Representative Whit
temore Of Colebrook says the poopl
in his section are delighted at tn
prospect of so soon having a road il
their midst, and that such energeti
and wealthy men are backing the en-
terprise. That this new scheme add
to the friends of the Boston 4
Maine road there is plenty of evi
dnOpn Mopob actor M;,ro,
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-17
Medical Science in China.

The Chinese have a medical literature
of a kind, but they know nothing about
even the elementary principles of anatomy
and physiology. A Chinaman who wishes
to become a doctor does not go through
any training OF spend money in buying a
practice; he has only to purchase a pair
of spectacles and gather some herbs, a
few spiders and some snakes, which he
places in bottles in the window of his
shop. The bottles are his advertisement;
they tell all who are in need of healing to
come to him. His favorite prescription
is a horrible pill, compounded of parts Of
snakes, wasps, centipedes, toads, and
scorpions, ground small and mixed with
honey.
Another pill, supposed to be of extra
ordinary efficacy in cases Of extreme
weakness, is made of the bones of tigers.
The belief in its merit is based on this
strange piece of reasoning: THE tiger is
very strong; the bone is the strongest part
of the strong animal-therefore, a pill of
this must be pre-eminently strengthen
ing" These facts speak ~eloquently as to
the state Of medical science in China.
The lamentable consequence is an Excess
sive mortality. 1t is calculated that
$4,000 die daily, and this number is Of
course largely increased during an cpl
demic, which is no uncommon visitor
Chambers Journal.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-17
A Dogs Intelligence.

There is an instance, which I can per-
sonally vouch for, Of a dogs comprehen-
sion Of a command that he had never
heard before. A suburban resident was
walking at night, not long ago, across a
meadow, and, losing the path in the
darkness, fell into a ditch. His dog, q
collie, had been running about in an aim
less way over the field. Gathering him.
self up, the gentleman called the dog,
and crouching over him said, sharply,
''Now, see here, Mac, I want you to
show me the path across the meadow.
Go right ahead Of me, do you hear, and
show me the path-show me the path!''
The dog obeyed to the letter. With his
nose to the ground. he followed the path
faithfully, with his master at his heels,
clear across the meadow, until he had
approached to within two or three rods
Of the limits of the field. Then he began
TO waver from side 10 side as IL looking
vainly for the path, and showed great
confusion and wen shame. Next day
the gentleman went over the ground by
daylight, and discovered that, at the
point where the dog began to waver, the
path was entirely lost in the thick grass.
Boston Transcript LISTENER"
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-17
Something About Bats,

The largest of the bats are the socalled
flying foxes-specimens Of which are
often landed at San Francisco and shipped
east. The face and head much resembles
that of the fox, the eyes being large and
lustrous. They are especially common in
the Isdian peninsula, and occasion SO
much damage in some Of the islands
which contain large fruit orchards that
the planters are obliged to cover the trees
with nets. The bats are extremely large,
and when see hanging from trees pre-
sent the appearance Of black fruit or
seeds. Often as many as 100 will be
seen clinging to the same tree, and so
powerful Of penetrating is the musky
o1or which they exude that their presence
Is announced long before they are seen.
These bats are famous for their habits
of intemperance, and a party of drunken
ones Is often met with. Their condition
Is due to their love for the toddy, which
they obtain from the chatties Of the CO.
coanut trees. So intoxicated do they
become that they are often found at the
foot Of trees sleeping off the effects Of
their debauch, and 50 fall victims TO the
vice. Temperance lecturers often use
the argument that man Of all the animal
kingdom Is the only one that takes TO the
flowing bowl, but the bats, monkeys, and
elephants are certainly exceptions
Pasadena Cor. Atlanta Constitution.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-17
TIE REPUBLIC OF chill.
Its Large Coast Line. Easy Communities
ton and Small Debt.

Its Large Coast Line. Easy Communities
ton and small Debt.
South and Central America are awaken
ing and attracting the attention OF enter
prising men here and in Europe more
than ever before. A few days ago som
account Of the progress Of the Argentine
Republic, drawn from official reports,
was sent you. The republic of Chill,
which will soon be in intimate connection
by transcontinental railways with the
Argentine Republic, is also rapidly de-
veloping its great resources and Chill has
the great advantage that 1t has had for
more than half a century, an orderly and
firmly established government, and enjoys
O high financial credit.
Chill has, according to the last census,
about S,000,O 900 Of people. Its foreign
trade, imports and exports, amounted last
year to Si10, 900, 900, the exports exceed
ing the imports in value by $40, 900, 900.
II possesses more than twenty banks, with
deposits of over $40, 900, 900.
The geographical coniguration of Chill,
long and narrow, with q coast line. and
more than fifty seaports, makes the
country unusually independent of rail-
roads as means Of communication. But
she was the first Of the South American
nations to introduce railroads and tele-
graphs; and while Brazil, Peru and the
Argentine Republic have a greater mile
age, Chill still, in proportion to popula-
ton, stands at the head both in railways
and telegraph lines. Of the latter, she
has $1,000 kilometers in operation; OF
railways $500 kilometers in operation,
with Q, 900 more in process Of construction.
The national finances Of Chill have al
ways been ably and conservatively man.
aged. BY the last reports the annual ex-
penditures are $34, 900, 900, and the re-
ceipts $50, O00, 900. Three millions are
devoted to public instruction, which is
free, as in the United States, in all grades,
and the country has 1900 primary
schools, attended by more than 100000
children of both In spite of her
costly wal with Peru, the public debt Of
Chill mounts to but $50, 900, 600, and
she has recently refunded her old foreign
debt in a new A 1-p per cent. loan for over
S2S, 600, 900, which was taken at par by
the London R~othschilds. 1t would seem
from this that the financial credit of the
little republic is second. only to that of
the United States, Great Britain and
France.
Aside from its agriculture, which Is
highly prosperous, Chill is very rich in
mines of coal, copper and silver, and in
the possession Of guano and nitrate de-
posts. She exports large quantities of
wheat to Europe, and Gillian wines are
beginning TO attract attention in France,
prizes having been awarded them at the
last exhibition in Bordeaux. The Ar
gentine republic is Chili's best market at
present for her wines, and rs her coal
will also find a market there, the policy
of Chill has been of late to further the
progress of transcontinental railways; and
the Gillian senate has recently unani-
mously voted a subsidy TO be used in
completing the gap of l40 miles to con-
meet their railroad system with that of
the Argentine ~republc.-Washington
Cor. New York Herald.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-17
THREE THREADS or GOLD.

Amny o'er the sea Is swallows d.,
would 20 all the world TO behold.
- my wishing Is vain, for . cruel one nigh
Has bound my heart fast within three threads
Of gold.
Al one Is her glance, another her smile,
The third her flower lips; / cannot depart,
Dor I love her too well, I'm . slave 70 her will;
with three threads Of gold she has fettered my
heart.
Al! could I but break the bright links Of my
chain.
.Ahieu. tean, torments-to Zee I'd be bold;
Dnf no. no; far, far better to die of the pain
Than TO break you asunder, obi my three
threads Of eoldi -Lsconte De Isle.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-17
70 ..ssHon the NORTHWEST.
TICKET OFFICES:

CHICAGO-s0S Clark ~.
4" Depot. Cor Polk 81. A. 5th Ave,
Palmer HOUSE.
A" Grand Pacific Hotel.
I. fremont House
MILWAUKEE-305 broadway.
{" New Passenger Station.
vt. PAUL-173tEast Third street
Union Depot.
MIENEAPOLls-1O Nfcoilet House Block.
Union Depot,
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-17
The Picture Of Despair.

An old gentleman appeared at the pa
tent Office the other day and wanted to
know why an application for q patent ON
m attachment TO O milling machine he
hsd filed had not been granted. He was
shown n patent covering the identical
improvements he claimed, granted some
ten years since. The old inventor gazed
ct the drawings Of the patent in q dazed
way and then said: II worked on that
invention for ten years every night, and
rust - I thought / had accomplished the
ann Of my life ! find another man had
done Il years ago." Tears filed the old
mans eyes - lie walked out Of the room
ths picture Of despair.
Capltai.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-17
A Chlld,s Idea.

Mamma" said a little girl whose
name was Gertrude Matilda, II hope
when the Lord wants me he'll call me by
my pretty name"
Her mother remarked that the name
would not make any difference TO the
Lord.
mo" was the reply, II s'pose not,
and whichever name Il is I s'pose IN
have to answer ."-Detroit Free Press.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-17

Gen. Boulanger proposes 10 restore the
rank of marshal. There will be three.
commanding the three corps into which
the French army Is TO be divided.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-17

The most extensive and complete bury
ing Of wireeoanywhere In the United
States y TO b found In Chicago.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-17

Do ~ anticipate trouble and worry
skput p>nt may newer happen. Ksspfn
- mnIIgfk-fnnklin.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-31
READING NEWS,

READING, KANs., March D, 1887.
NEWS COMPANY; The rain of last
Saturday night il q big boom to the
Maris des Cygne valley. About two
inches of rain fell. A few minutes
after the rain began to fall, amid
thunder and lightning and q green
sky, there came q shower of snow that
in five minutes time made the ground
white. 1t was something new to most
Of us, and was something beautiful to
look upon. The snow remained upon
the ground until about noon on Sunday
and it was Tun one inch thick, forming
q partial ice.
Mrs. Sole had beans up in her gar
den, but she had no time to take them
into the house and they ara gone. The
most of our people had their gardens
planted, and hardly expected such cold
weather
The lumber yard talk of moving
west, so there is q good opening &oI
some good party to put In q stock OF
lumber and supply our needed wants
Reading people do not appreciate
three passenger trains in such rapid
succession through our town, but;
would prefer them scattered . little
more through the day, and accomno
date the travelling public little If
The II. E. church people hold a hand
shake social and reception to their new
pastor on Wednesday evening at the
church.
Dr.. 4. II. Edison is among Us again
Tor few dayz-buE expects TO. return
next week to Syracuse, Kansas, TO
spend the summer.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-31
our BUsKNEsS PRosPECTs.


Now that everything within our
power has been done to insure the
building of the new roads, and it is as
near a certainty as possible that dirt
will begin to fly ON the Missouri, Kan
sas and Southwestern within two
months, would it not be well to push
the projected manufactures for which
charters have been taken out at the
state capital? 1t has been decided
that the long haul provision of the In
ter-state commerce law will operate
greatly to the advantage of local man.
ufacturers as well as jobbers. This be-
ing the case, we can not too soon take
advantage of its provisions. The ones
first to thoroughly organize and begin
work will be the ones TO reap the
greatest benefits, as they will be en-
abled to obtain the cream of the bust
ness by being first in the field.
This same argument is equally ap-
plicable to the jobbing trade, and our
merchants should-some Of them al
ready are-taks immediate hold and
reap the advantages to be gained
thereby. Wholesale houses established
at Emporia will be able to reap a rich
harvest in the immediate future.
Other cities aIlIaround us are taking
steps in these two directions, and we
should not be behind them if we in
tend to keep to the front.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-31
Grandesr Sale OF .he -eason

Having retired from business by sell
ing and renting my farms to my sons,
hereby offer at public auction, with
out reserve, at my farm, one mile east
of Americas, on
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1897,
commencing at 10 o'clock a. m. sharp,
all my live stock, farming implements
and part of household furniture, con-
sisting of the following property, to-
wit:
FIFTEEN HEAD OF FINE HORSES
as follows: / seven-year-old brood
mare, half Norman; six-year-old brood
mare; three-year-old brood mare, half
Norman; four-year-old brood mare;
seven-year-old brood mare, half Ham
bletonian, with fine blooded colt by her
side; five-year-old horse; fine seven
year-old team of work horses, half
Norman, weight, $500; eight-year-oid
brood mare; eight-year-old work horse:
five-year-old horse; good work and cat
tie horse, eight-year-old. The above
animals are all well broke to work,
single or double. Two colts, two-year-
old; extra fine, mostly Norman, colt,
one-year-old.
sEvENTY-Two HEAD OF CATTLE,
consisting of 8 No. milk COWS, wi I
soon have calves by their sides; 6 three
year-old fat steers; II three-year-old
steers; 81 two-year-old steers; 2 one
year-old steers; three-year-oId heif-
ers; one-year-old heifers.
Fifty bushels of good seed corn; IL
bushels of millet seed; about $50 BUSH
els of oats, 200 bushels of corn, so
shocks of corn fodder and Is tons Of
good prairie hay. Three lumber wag-
ons, two with racks and beds; low
wheeled feed wagon, spring wagon,
one-horse buggy and harness, hay-rake,
Ames' hay gatherer, Buckeye mower,
Wood mower, wheat drill, tanning
mill, harrow, Barlow corn plant
er, with Hayworth check-rower;
sulky pillow; breaking pillow; riding
cultivator; three walking cultiva-
tors; stalk cutter; improved corn lister;
corn shelter; Boss sickle grinder; sets
double harness; saddle; book case; pat
ent churn; clothes wringer; kitchen
safe; cook stove; bedsteads; sofa, and
many other articles too numerous to
mention.
TERNs-An sums under $40, cash;
BIO and over a credit of twelve months
1T 10 per cent interest viii be given, :
good bankabIe paper required; per
,ent of for cash; no property to be re-
moved until settled for.
FREE LUNCH SERVED.
JACOB BAsIEsBEReER.
L. F. PRCYN, Auctioneer.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-31
The New Liquor Law.

The Murray Temperance Bill which
has become law and viii go into eff
feet March 30th, Is substantially as
follows: No one but registered phar-
macisls are allowed to obtain or hold q
permit and before the Probate Judge is
allowed to grant q permit the applicant
must present to him certificate from
the State Board of Pharmacy showing
that the applicant is a duly registered
pharmacist. The applicant viii be re-
Quired to present petition signed by
at least twenty-five resident electors
and twenty-five women OF the city,
township or ward in which the appli-
can't intends to engage in business. The
petition is required to be publish
ed at least two weeks before the appli-
cation is heard, in some newspaper
having q general circulation in the
couRty. The applicant must also file
with the Probate Judge = good and
sufficient bond in the sum Of 81 600
that he win obey the law, and upon the
violation of the law by him or any one
in his employ, as a druggist, the bond
becomes forfeited to the State OF Kan
sas aud a conviction Of any such peTBon
is made prima facie evidences of such
forfeiture, Only registered pharma,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-31

n NEW scheme in temperance legis-
lation, and one that, although a de-
cided novelty, undoubtedly has many
merits to recommend it, is now being
advocated in Virginia, The idea is to
prohibit the sale of intoxicants to all
who are not licensed liquor-drinkers,
the license to be non-transferable and
the proceeds to go to the school fund.
Were this scheme to become national,
and the licenses put at a fair figure, it
might become an interesting expert
ment, to say the least, especially in the
state of Kansas, where so many of our
citizens are the most ultra of ultra
prohibitionists while at home, where
public sentiment is so strong that
they swim with the current, but some
of whom, when they visit our neighbor
at the mouth of the Kaw, or even the
state capital, if we are to believe cur
rent reports, forget themselves so much
as to sometimes indulge in the ardent.
This plan would put quietus on all
such temperance advocates. 1t would
also, probably, put stop to the blath-
ering of political demagogueS who
preach temperance for votes, and prac-
tice drinking with boon companions
when away from home-because they
are built that way.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-31

cists and assistant registered pharma-
cists are allowed to SELL Sales
can then be made only
upon afidaYit of the person
buying. The form OF the afidavit is
prescribed in tho bill and in addition to
the requisites OF the statement under
the present law the aff1davit must also
show that the applicant is over twenty
one years OF age. The afidavits are to
county clerk. The blanks are to be
bound in book form, in series Of one
hundred In q book, and numbered from
one to one hundred. The county clerk
Is required to certify each book over his
name and seal Of his ONCE with the
date Of delivery and to whom such de-
livery is made. The county clerk is re-
quired to keep record Of each book 80
furnished and two copies Of the blank
amdsv1ts, except as to number. one Of
which shall be retained in his ofBce.
Within ten days after furnishing any
book to druggist the county clerk is
required TO file with the probate judge
i q transcript Of his record relating to
such book together with copy of the
blank afidavits. The probate judge lie
required to make strict examination OF
each book of afidavits returned by any
druggist and compare them with the
record furnished him by the county
clerk and ascertain whether the drug
by the county clerk in blank form
and If the druggist has not raturned al
af1davits, he Is required to show By
his afhdavit what has become Of any
one missing. Sales can only be made
in full view of the front door OF the
place of business of such druggist.
Pharmacists and assistant pharma
cists are empowered to administer thu
afiidavits for the purpose Of the law.
When Tor any reason the act is moi
enforced in any county the Attorney
General Is empowered to appoint one o.
more assistants TO enforce it. who shall
torneY. When ne fee of S25 allowed
by law for coUvictioH upon each count
Is not paid by the defendant before ter
days after his RELEASE from jail, the
County shall become liable to the At
torney General; for such fee. Tit
manufacturer is to- sell only to the
druggists having permit, and thai
without any affidavit as now provided
by law.
False signing and false swearing t.
the afidavits are punished as forgery
and perjury. The Probate Judge and
County Clerk are punished for neglect
of duty by fine and forfeiture of Office
The druggist is punished by a fine OF
not less than thirty nor more thar
ninety days, for selling without the af.
fidavit provided by the act, or any
other affidavit, or for attempt to return
any other than the proper affidavit tt
the Probate Judge. Other penalties
prescribed by the old law are retained
in the new.
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AstonIahIne success.

1t the duty of every person who has
used Boschee's German Syrup to let its
wonderful qualities be known to their
friends in curing Consumption, severe
Coughs, Group, Asthma, pneumonia,
and in fact all throat and lung diseases.
No person can use it without immedi-
ate relief. Three doses will relieve any
case, and we consider it the duty of all
Druggists to recommend it to the poor,
dying cOnsumptive, at least to try one
bottle, as $4,000 dozen bottles were sold
last year, and no one case where it fail
ed was reported. Such a medicine as
the German Syrup cannot be to widely
known. Ask your druggist about it.
Sample bottles to try, sold at 10 cents.
Regular size, rs cents. Sold by all
Druggists and Dealers, in the United
States and Canada
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-31

THE fifth annual meeting of the Ma
tional Woman S Suffrage association, Of
Massachusetts, was in session at Bos-
ton on Thursday, Large delegations
from all New England were in attend
ance. During the evening long set
of resolutions were adopted calling
upon the federal and various state gov
elnments to grant their sex all their
platform demanded, and among them
was the following resolution:
ITO their fellow suffragists in Kan
sas:
Resolved, That we congratulate
Kansas upon being the first state to
give municipal suffrage to women. She
has shown herself true to the princi-
pies which were the guiding star of the
pioneers who planted civilization on
her soil and whose motto was: No
slavery within our borders "
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted and copy ordered to be en-
crossed and sent to the Kansas asso-
citation. Commonwealth.